Your Constantly Updating Yellowstone Fly Fishing Resource
The Madison is still an excellent place to spend a long day fishing. Both the Upper and the Lower are in good shape, and the trout are hungry. Flows are relatively stable, and the water temperatures have risen just enough to make the fishing interesting.
Streamers are the most popular fly this time of year. As […]
As the nights have cooled and the days gotten shorter, the Yellowstone has plowed through a very productive fall season. While you’ll still see midges and maybe even a few BWOs on the right kind of day – the Yellowstone’s residents are much more likely to fall for well presented nymphs and streamers.
As others have […]
After posting the glowing report about the Big Hole last weekend, seems like we’ve run into a flock of folks who have been over there. Even Craig Matthew’s team at Blue Ribbon mentioned the Big Hole and Beaverhead in their newsletter this week.
There really have been very workable Baetis and Midge hatches over here, and when […]
Despite water temps cooling some (46-47 F the past few evenings, warming to nearly 50 during the day) the Missouri has had another strong week for those willing to brave some weather.
Reports have been good on the days the wind wasn’t blowing Steve’s dog off the porch – see Steve’s comment below. There are still […]
As we turn to winter (there was a dusting of snow on the ground in Bozeman this morning!) fishing on the Bighorn is only getting better. The weeds are dying and pulling up, and the water has settled a bit after the recent lake inversion. Things should only get better in the next few weeks, […]
The Yellowstone is still holding its own for fishing; and the cooler and cloudy weather of the past few days has done nothing but help. The Brown trout are beginning to spawn, so focus on fishing the runs beneath gravel beds (don’t fish the beds themselves.) There are big, I’ll say it again, big fish […]
One might be tempted to argue that the Big Hole offers some of the best fishing in the state right now.
We’ve been enlightened this past week as to how many big browns there are in this river, and how they respond to big streamers stripped through the deeper holes and runs. There is plenty of […]
The Missouri has had a very good fall – and has probably been a bit underappreciated through the fall season. The river is still fishing very well from what we’ve heard from folks; I talked to a friend this morning who had spent time over this past week combining a fishing and elk run, and […]
One of the rivers we will be reporting on through the winter is the Bighorn, one of Montana’s most famous tailwater fisheries. Flowing out of Yellowtail dam, this river fishes almost like a giant spring creek. The Bighorn is very angler friendly with its graveled bottom, gentle current and unusually clear water. The river is […]
The bright sun of these waning days of October has impacted the fall fishing a bit. As you’d expect with the opening of big game rifle season last weekend fishing pressure has been down a tad. The sun is pushing the better streamer fishing to early and late on most waters, and we’re all looking […]
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